American diplomats were warned of possible violent unrest in Benghazi
three days before the killings of US Ambassador Christopher Stevens and
three members of his team, Libyan security officials say.

The claim came as the country's interim President, Mohammed
el-Megarif, said his government had information that the attack on the
US consulate had been planned by an Islamist group with links to
al-Qa'ida and with foreigners taking part.
However, the American ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, insisted that
the killings had resulted from a demonstration against a film about the
Prophet Mohamed, replicating protests in Cairo, which had been
"hijacked" and got out of control.The Independent has reported diplomatic sources who said that
the threat of an attack against US interests in the region was known to
the US administration 48 hours before it took place. The alert was
issued by the State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security, but not
made public. A State Department spokesman maintained: "We are not aware
of any actionable intelligence indicating that an attack on the US
Mission in Benghazi was planned or imminent."
But President Megarif told the American station National Public
Radio: "We firmly believe that this was a pre-calculated, pre-planned
attack that was carried out specifically to attack the US Consulate. A
few of those who joined in were foreigners who had entered Libya from
different directions, some of them definitely from Mali and Algeria."
A senior official of the biggest militia in Benghazi, the February
17th Brigade, told CNN that he had warned US diplomats of a rapidly
deteriorating security situation in Benghazi three days before the
attack. "The situation is frightening, it scares us," he said he had
stressed during the meeting. Mr Stevens had been back in Libya for only a
short time before US security officials decided it would be safe to
make the journey to Benghazi during the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
The British consulate in the city was shut after an ambush of a convoy
carrying Dominic Asquith, the UK ambassador, in which his bodyguard were
injured. The UN and International Committee of the Red Cross offices
had been bombed and there had been a spate of political assassinations.
However, Ms Rice denied the Benghazi attack was pre-planned. She
said: "Our current best assessment... is that... it was a spontaneous –
not a premeditated – response to what had transpired in Cairo. "A small
number of people came to the consulate. It seems to have been hijacked
by some individual clusters of extremists who came with heavier
weapons... And it then evolved from there." Mr Stevens was separated
from his protection team during the attack. He was found, it is thought
unconscious, by locals who took him to hospital where, doctors said, he
died from smoke inhalation.
The Americans who escaped from the consulate made their way to a
"safe house" at a supposedly secret location. That, too, came under
mortar fire. Captain Fathi al-Obeidi, who had taken an eight-strong
American rescue team which had arrived from Tripoli to the safe house,
said "I don't know how they found the place to carry out the attack. It
was planned, the accuracy with which the mortars hit us was too good for
any ordinary revolutionaries." On Sunday, the head of Libya's national
congress said about 50 people had been arrested in connection with the
attack on the US consulate, though the interior ministry put the figure
far lower.

Posted Sep-18-2012 By

para782

His following would butcher Bush for doing the things Obama has done but love it because a Dumbocrap tells these lies and makes all these crisis's even worse. If he is elected again we will see suicide bomber here in the US.

Posted Sep-19-2012 By

Just Wondering

Comment of user 'Nazel_Hut' has been deleted by author (after account deletion)!

If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it

Precisely, that quote has wrongfully been attributed to Goebbels, he never said or wrote that, it's a lie!

What he actually wrote was this:

The essential English leadership secret does not depend on particular intelligence. Rather, it depends on a remarkably stupid thick-headedness. The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculousMore..
Which in other words is just the contrary of what people think of this quote, Goebbels actually denounces the principe of the Big Lie, for which no good and superiorly smarter Nazi should ever fall.

Posted Sep-18-2012 By

Ali187

Posted Sep-18-2012 By

aranger45

This whole situation wreaks of fuckery. First of all. That shitty video was made well over a year ago. Why do they strike now? And how did all of these koranimals know about the video and plan an attack before we even knew the video existed?

Looks like the perfect situation to suit up for another bullshit war in the ME.

Posted Sep-18-2012 By

stra

@stra Probably bc its a shitty B movie that looks like its a spoof on Tosh.O. Also it was only dubbed in Arabic on Sept. 7th and that asshole minister started promoting it the next day. Not taking sides yet but as of now im leaning towards believing that there were attacks planned beforehand but the movie is just helping spread the madness across the middle east.

Posted Sep-19-2012 By

Just Wondering

All other arguements aside, does anyone have more info on the initial reports from the Syrian news that he was raped before being killed? I saw that article once and then everyone seemed to forget about it and are now focused on whether it was due to the film or not and if the U.S knew about it beforehand. Please post up or message me if you have info.

Posted Sep-18-2012 By

yorba

Posted Sep-18-2012 By

youtubesux

@yorba Aaahh did I hit to close to home? Bush was specifically warned about groups learning to fly large aircraft? Or were you blinded by the other Bush lies about WMD's in Iraq when that info came out? I know how about sending Romeny out of the country again. How many more countries can he piss off and offend. Hell he managed to irritate 47% of the US just recently.
Keep shoveling. I'm sure you'll get to China eventually. Those tax cuts the republicans gave the rich created a lot of jobs there.More.. It sure as hell did not create any here.Less..